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"The best people posses a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed." - Ernest Hemingway

Fita came by his aunt's house, where I was staying, to do some photos. Before he arrived, I took time to look around and try to find things I could use to get some more creative textured photos this time. I found some different windows to use, and I was glad he was open to being my model for the day!

When I first took this shot above, I wasn't really sure about it, with all the clouds and shadows. But once I started editing it, and looking at it more, I started to love it more and more. 

Creativity is a state of mind brought about by creating.

This shot above, as well as the one below were taken through a frosted window. I had seen some photos using some type of glass like this, and I thought I would do a little experimenting with it and see what I can get. 

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night" - Edgar Allen Poe

F I T A H I A N A

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‘Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the common place, the slaves of the ordinary.’ -Cecil Beaton

Fita is 15 years old now and I remember when he was just a little baby. I know I’ve told this story before, but when was a toddler, around 2 or 3, he would love visiting me. One time when I went home on furlough, he still went to my room trying to find me. 

Later on, when he was around 5 or 6, he would come over and talk to me after he got home from school and tell me all kinds of stories. 

Of course there was a time where I was absent and didn’t see him for a number of years. When I saw him back in July after I arrived, I almost didn’t recognize him. He’s grown into an amazing young man. 

I was visiting him and some of his other family the other day. I brought my camera gear along, hoping to get some photos of the kids playing around outside. Later in the day, he asked if we could do some photos. We both had different ideas for the photo session, and I was very happy and satisfied with many of the photos. He’s a born model!!

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"Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity"  - Mark Twain

I hope the best for you Fita, and I hope you can accomplish the things on your heart!